“u dumb bag holder- you held your bags through a hell bear market
with the hopes that a project which chose to prioritize meaningful decentralization- in concept, design, planning and execution,
powered by the world’s most liquid, credibly-neutral permissionless asset
would somehow win and become the global settlement layer which banks and governments would choose to build on, allowing permissionless activity to flourish alongside it”
guilty as charged, but also, i’ll probably be right
lots of good arguments why the US should have a @EFDevcon, but getting US visas for all participants is a real issue as well
i think perhaps instead we should consider reforming something like EthDenver into something which moves around the USA and features much more prominent focus on content for investor and policy audiences
we need to ask ourselves if the hackathon vibe, sponsored by every VC-funded chain, fits where Ethereum is at this point and what's needed to grow the network from here. idk the answer, i just hear a lot of criticism from folks on EthDenver and how it is not very Ethereum-focused at this point and is a very commercialized "crypto conference"
another option is to create a new Ethereum and ETH-focused conference run by @Etherealize_io or similar
Circle/USDC won't sell to Ripple imo, but Ripple will use this opportunity to drive the price tag up for Coinbase
Coinbase will probably acquire them at some point if they are really for sale
Circle management can make a very clear argument to their shareholders that it's better for their business prospects to integrate with Coinbase rather than Ripple/XRP, and the investors would get Coinbase stock in exchange
stablecoins will become a critical supply sink for US debt
because they transmute ravenous demand for liquid, digital US dollars (the global reserve currency) into demand for US Treasuries / debt
at a time when the government is actively nuking the desirability of holding debt for many participants due to devaluing the future payouts through inflation